NAME

SYNOPSIS

#include<tcl.h>Tcl_WrongNumArgs(interp,objc,objv,message)

ARGUMENTS

Tcl_Interp interp (in) Interpreter in which error will
be reported: error message gets
stored in its result value.
int objc (in) Number of leading arguments from
objv to include in error message.
Tcl_Obj *const objv[] (in) Arguments to command that had the
wrong number of arguments.
const char *message (in) Additional error information to
print after leading arguments
from objv. This typically gives
the acceptable syntax of the
command. This argument may be
NULL.
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DESCRIPTION

Tcl_WrongNumArgs is a utility procedure that is invoked by command
procedures when they discover that they have received the wrong number
of arguments. Tcl_WrongNumArgs generates a standard error message and
stores it in the result value of interp. The message includes the objc
initial elements of objv plus message. For example, if objv consists
of the values foo and bar, objc is 1, and message is "fileNamecount"
then interp's result value will be set to the following string:
wrong # args: should be "foo fileName count"
If objc is 2, the result will be set to the following string:
wrong # args: should be "foo bar fileName count"
Objc is usually 1, but may be 2 or more for commands like string and
the Tk widget commands, which use the first argument as a subcommand.
Some of the values in the objv array may be abbreviations for a
subcommand. The command Tcl_GetIndexFromObj will convert the
abbreviated string value into an indexObject. If an error occurs in
the parsing of the subcommand we would like to use the full subcommand
name rather than the abbreviation. If the Tcl_WrongNumArgs command
finds any indexObjects in the objv array it will use the full
subcommand name in the error message instead of the abbreviated name
that was originally passed in. Using the above example, let us assume
that bar is actually an abbreviation for barfly and the value is now an
indexObject because it was passed to Tcl_GetIndexFromObj. In this case
the error message would be:
wrong # args: should be "foo barfly fileName count"